Bull's Rambles

Just a quick post to tell you all about Jim Miller’s useful and interesting work with NASA World Wind, here’s the link – http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~miller/WorldWind/

I’m a bit late with this news but Hooked on the Fly is now airing on The Sportsmans Channel, the satellite imagery used in this show was all created using NASA World Wind and uses only non-commercial satellite and orthoimagery. The air times are – Sunday 6:30 PM Tuesday 10:30 PM Wednesday 11:30 AM Thursday 2:00 AM Friday 6:30 AM [...]

At long last NASA has given credit to World Wind, Patrick Hogan, Project Manager for World Wind at NASA Ames, has just let me know that NASA has awarded this years Software of the Year award to NASA World Wind. Details are posted on the community run  forum at WorldWind Central, Patrick goes on to [...]

I have moved the World Wind video channel across to the new beta channel, or YouTube 2.0 as they call it, I know a lot of people don’t like the new layout but I kind of do, although more customization options would be nice, while I was at it I pruned the World Wind group, [...]

The NASA World Wind Servers will be down for maintenance this weekend, this means unless you have your data cached locally you won’t get any imagery, for .NET you will also experience long load times and possibly no toolbar, for Java apps I’m not quite sure what problems will occur. The WorldWind Central server will [...]

I just got an email from Patrick Hogan letting me know some NASA World Wind servers will be down between Friday Aug 7th afternoon (PST) and Sunday Aug 9th midnight, this may or may not have any affect on World Wind, but if it goes slow or you get strange errors please be patient.